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GNU Service Directory
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This is a list of people who have asked to be listed as offering
support services for GNU software, including GNU Emacs, for a fee
or in some cases at no charge.
The information comes from the people who asked to be listed;
we do not include any information we know to be false, but we
cannot check out any of the information; we are transmitting it to
you as it was given to us and do not promise it is correct.
Also, this is not an endorsement of the people listed here.
We have no opinions and usually no information about the abilities of
any specific person. We provide this list to enable you to contact
service providers and decide for yourself whether to hire one.
Before FSF will list your name in the GNU Service Directory, we ask
that you agree informally to the following terms:
1. You will not restrict (except by copyleft) the use or distribution
of any software, documentation, or other information you supply anyone
in the course of modifying, extending, or supporting GNU software.
This includes any information specifically designed to ameliorate the
use of GNU software.
2. You will not take advantage of contact made through the Service
Directory to advertise an unrelated business (e.g., sales of
non-GNU-related proprietary information). You may spontaneously
mention your availability for general consulting, but you should not
promote a specific unrelated business unless the client asks.
Please include some indication of your rates, because otherwise users
have nothing to go by. Please put each e-mail address inside "<>".
Please put nothing else inside "<>". Thanks!
For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask:
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **
Joseph Arceneaux
PO Box 460633
San Francisco, CA 94146-0633
+1 415 285 9088
Former FSF staffmember. Performed X11 implementation of Emacs version
19 and worked on WYSIWYG Emacs. Installed and administered FSF
network. Maintainer of GNU indent. Over 10 years experience with Unix
systems, from writing ROM monitors to UI design and system administration.
I provide installation, porting, debugging and customization or
development of GNU and other Unix software. I also design and
implement free software projects and consult on software engineering
and systems design. Handholding and teaching services are also
available as well as things like LAN and compute--infrastructure design.
Rates are upwards of $70 USD per hour, depending upon the particular
job. I am also very interested in fixed-bid jobs. For selected
non-profit organizations with worthy goals, I work for free.
Updated: 5Apr94
Gerd Aschemann
Herderstr. 15
D-64285 Darmstadt
Tel.: +49 6151 62568
- System Administrator (UNIX) of Operating Systems Research Group,
CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Consultant for other UNIX users at TU Darmstadt
- 14 years experience with CS, Systemadministration
- 7 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11
- 5 years organizer of practical OS courses
- Platforms: SunOS, HP-UX, Ultrix, OSF1, Linux, AIX, Solaris
- Experience with parallel environments (Transputers: Meiko, Parix)
Rates are at 100,-- DM (~60 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job.
I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs.
Entered: 10Jun94
Giuseppe Attardi
Dipartimento di Informatica
Corso Italia 40
I-56125 Pisa, Italy
+39 50 887-244
GNU: help on obtaininig GNU, for italian sites.
Updated: 5Apr94
James Craig Burley
4 Mountain Gate Rd.
Ashland, MA 01721-2326
508 881-6087, -4745
Email: --preferred--
Expertise:
Compiler Internals (author of GNU Fortran, for example)
Operating Systems Internals (lately Linux on the ix86)
Tools/Utilities Development and Maintenance
Microcode Development and Maintenance (primarily VLIW machines)
System Design (computers, operating systems, toolsets, &c)
Debugging (often asked to help debug Other People's Code)
Documentation (authored many books and ran a few doc projects)
Extensive experience with a variety of operating systems, hardware,
languages, and so on
Rate: $75/hour, though somewhat volatile due to commitments regarding
GNU Fortran -- willing to consider flat-fee arrangements
Entered: 5Apr94
Michael I. Bushnell
545 Technology Square, NE43-426
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-8568
All GNU software: Installation, customization, answering simple or
complex questions, bug fixing, extension.
Experience: I have done Unix and GNU programming for several years,
I am the primary author of the Hurd (which provides most
kernel related facilities for the GNU OS).
I am easily available in the Cambridge/Boston area; work via email.
I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs.
Rates: $100/hr, negotiable, less for non-profit organizaions.
Updated: 5Apr94
C2V Renaud Dumeur
82 bd Haussmann Michel Delval
75009 Paris Jean-Alain Le Borgne
France
Tel (1) 40.08.07.07
Fax (1) 43.87.35.99
We offer source or source+binary distribution, installation, training,
maintenance, technical support, consulting, specific development and
followup on the GNU software development environment: Emacs, gcc/g++,
binutils, gas, gdb.
Experience: adapted gcc, gas and binutils to work as cross-development
tools for the Thomson st18950 DSP chip: GCC parser and typing system
have been augmented to allow the manipulation of variables located in
separated memory spaces. Porting on new platforms, and professionally
developing software with the GNU tools in the Unix/X11 environment
since they were first available.
Rates: from 2000 FF/day to 150 000 FF/year, 40% discount for
educational institutions, add taxes and expenses. Ask for list.
Entered: 5May94
Contributed Software
Graefestr. 76
10967 Berlin, Germany
phone: (+49 30) 694 69 07
FAX: (+49 30) 694 68 09
modems: (+49 30) 694 60 55 (5xZyXEL )
modems: (+49 30) 693 40 51 (8xUSR DS)
email:
internet: uropax.contrib.de [192.109.39.2], login as 'guest'.
We distribute, install, port, teach and support free software
in general, i.e. X11, GNU, khoros etc. Rates are ECU 80,-- plus
tax per hour. We offer maintenance and support contracts for full
customer satisfaction.
Highlights are transparent development environments for multi-platform
sites and configuration management. Traveling is no problem.
Free Archive login for downloading on above modem numbers.
Updated: 5Apr94
Stuart Cracraft
25682 Cresta Loma
Laguna Niguel, Ca.
92677
GNUline: 714-347-8106
Rate: $75/hour
Consultation topics:
Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation,
user-training, administrator-training
Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site,
or direct visit.
Experience: supporting GNU since the mid-1980's, coordinator
of GNU Chess (original author), GNU Shogi, GNU Go. Ported GNU Emacs
to Solaris (System V Release 4). Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl.
Customized programming also available.
Entered: 5Apr94
Cygnus Support
1937 Landings Drive ...uunet!cygint!info
Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
+1 415 903 1400 voice
+1 415 903 0122 fax
Cygnus Support
48 Grove Street
Somerville, MA 02144
+1 617 629 3000 voice
+1 617 629 3010 fax
Cygnus Support continues to provide supported, maintained versions of
the GNU toolset including GCC, G++, the GNU debugger with graphical
user interface, GNU linker, GNU macro-assembler and Emacs 19. In
keeping with the rapidly advancing needs of software developers,
Cygnus maintains a 90 day release cycle of the GNU toolset. Each
release is regression tested and includes substantial improvements and
additions to the existing matrix of over 65 supported platform
configurations.
Updated: 2Feb95
Jose A. Fernandez
WORK: Inference Corporation HOME:
550 N. Continental Blvd. 1025 Hillside Dr.
El Segundo, CA 90245 Chino Hills, CA 91709
(310) 322-0200 x205 (714) 528-2523
RATES:
Variable, depending on work to be done.
SERVICES:
GNU software: installation, troubleshooting, and instruction.
X11 software: installation and troubleshooting.
Entered: 14Apr94
Free Software Association of Germany
Michaela Merz
Heimatring 19
6000 Frankfurt/Main 70
phone: (+49 69) 6312083)
ert : (+49-172-6987246)
email: (info@elara.fsag.de)
Supporting all kinds of freeware (i.e. GNU), freeware development, consulting,
training, installation. Special LINUX support group.
RATES:
Companies and for profit
organizations : 100 US$ / hour
Private and not-for-profit
organizations : 40 US$ / hour
ert (24h Emergency
response team) : 300 US$ / hour
Entered: 14Apr94
Noah Friedman
Building 600, Suite 214
One Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
+1 617 876 3296
Co-maintainer of GNU texinfo and GNU autoconf. Author of several
Emacs Lisp packages and parts of Emacs 19, as well as numerous
utilities written in shell script and perl. System administrator for
a small network of heterogenous machines. FSF employee spring 1991 to
the present.
Installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software and other free
software; "auto-configuration" a specialty. System administration
for most unix-like systems. Willing to teach shell programming and
Emacs Lisp.
Fees negotiable. I can work in the Boston area or anywhere on the
Internet. For larger jobs I may be willing to travel.
Updated: 5Apr94
Ron Guilmette
396 Ano Nuevo Ave. #216
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408-732-7839
Services: Development & porting of GNU software development tools.
GNU Contributions:
Invented, designed, and implemented the protoize and
unprotoize tools supplied with GCC2.
Designed and developed all code to support the generation
of Dwarf symbolic debugging information for System V Release
4 in GCC2.
Performed original port of GNU compilers to SVr4 system.
Finished port of GNU compilers to Intel i860 RISC
processor.
Experience: 11+ years UNIX systems experience, all working on compilers
and related tools.
5+ years working professionally on GCC, G++, and GDB under
contract to various firms including the Microelectronics
and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Data General (DG),
Network Computing Devices (NCD), and Intel Corp.
Other qualifications:
Developer of the RoadTest (tm) C and C++ commercial
compiler test suites.
Former vice-chairman of UNIX International Programming
Languages Special Interest Group (UI/PLSIG).
Bachelor's and a Master's degree, both in
Computer Science.
Rates: Variable depending upon contract duration. Call for quote.
Updated: 13Apr94
Hundred Acre Consulting
1155 W Fourth St Ste 225
PO Box 6209
Reno NV 89513-6209
(702)-348-7299
Hundred Acre is a consulting group providing support and development
services to organizations of all sizes. We support GNU C++ and C in
particular, but also provide support for all other GNU software and
certain non-GNU public domain software as well. We work on a "service
contract" basis for support -- for a yearly fee, we provide multiple
levels of email and toll free telephone support, and free updates and
bug fixes. The highersupport levels have on-site support. Development
is charged on either an hourly or fixed bid basis.
Consulting rates: $70 to $90 per hour, or fixed bid.
Support contracts: Several levels, from $495 to $90000 per year.
Updated: 27Dec94
Scott D. Kalter